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BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

Mortal Engines
Title: Mortal Engines
Description:
In a world where moving cities trawl the globe, Tom and Hester have been thrown out of theirs and left them stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere. Hester is desperate for revenge while Tom is only desperate to get back on board his beloved London.
Predator's Gold
Title: Predator's Gold
Description:
Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver's engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city that has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead Continent...
Infernal Devices
Title: Infernal Devices
Description:
Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching - in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they'll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester's daughter Wren is their eager dupe, bored and desperate for adventure. When the theft of the mysterious Tin Book of Anchorage goes wrong, Wren is snatched away in the limpet, who knows where. Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but this is the end of their quiet life on Anchorage. The journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous waters...
A Darkling Plain
Title: A Darkling Plain
Description:
It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, The Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - Hester's disappearance, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going back... Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London...
The Big Freeze (buster Bayliss)
Title: The Big Freeze (buster Bayliss)
Description:
Buster is not happy. Somebody, or something, is spoiling a perfectly good summer holiday by invading Smogley (again!). Don't they know that Buster has better things to do? He has a full schedule of not-going-to-school, biscuit-eating and Busterball. He doesn't have time to save the world from rampaging ice-freaks - really, they could have asked. This is the second in the hilarious series from "Mortal Engines" author, Philip Reeve.
Fever Crumb
Title: Fever Crumb
Description:
A handwritten label on a tiny wrist. Thousands of years from now, a baby is abandoned in the ruins of London. Rescued by some eccentric Engineers, Fever Crumb grows up unaware that she is the keeper of an explosive secret. Are the mysterious powers she possesses the key that will save London from a new and terrible enemy? Mortal Engines is one of the greatest fantasy worlds ever created and is an internationally best-selling sequence of novels. Fever Crumb is the brilliant prequel to the series.